Boris Yeltsin
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Government and Politics
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Presidents, Prime Ministers
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Russian/Former Soviet States History
Article abstract: From within the Soviet establishment, Yeltsin led the increasingly radical forces that first sought to reform the Soviet Union then engineered its demise. Yeltsin became the first president of the post-Soviet Russian Federation.
Early Life
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was born in the town of Butka, in the Soviet Union’s Sverdlovsk region, in 1931. His family was politically unexceptional. As a youth, Yeltsin displayed a combination of intelligence and impertinence. He was once expelled from school but later returned and, in 1955, earned...
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